rubbing
- Museum number
- Oc2006,Drg.453
- Title
- Series: Te Arekarioi, Part III
- Description
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Rubbing; three scenes in two rows, with two dividing pattern at the top and bottom of the rubbing; first scene depicts a person holding an axe; second scene depicts a person beside a palm tree and outrigger sailing boat; third scene depicts a woman on a outrigger sailing boat, sailing towards an island with a thatched roof shelter. 20thC(early).
Rubbing.
- Production date
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20thC(early)
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April 1968
- Dimensions
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Height: 28.80 centimetres (mount)
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Height: 26.80 centimetres (rubbing)
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Width: 45.90 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 43.80 centimetres (rubbing)
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- Curator's comments
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Related images: Oc2006-Drg-423 through to Oc2006-Drg-73 are all from an unbound folio collection of rubbings depicting imagery legends in the Cook Islands. The cardboard painted front cover of the folio is painted with Polynesian designs and gives the title: "A COLLECTION OF HAND PRINTS OF LEGENDS OF THE COOK ISLANDS", April 1968. The date is handwritten in ink, in the corner of the front cover, which suggests that this is the date at which each rubbing was covered with overlaying paper and given a series number.
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Inscription: It is unclear what the inscription on tha back of the mount is refering to.
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Notes from Curator Jean Tekura Mason at the Cook Islands Library & Museum Society Inc: They have copies of 52 rubbings which appear to be the same as those in the BM collection. Photos and an inscription suggests that the prints in their collection were done in 1965 under the tutelage of Sami & Fred Stubner of Hawaii, utilising 10th grade/4th form pupils of Tereora College, the main state school.
A wall mural (on the discovery of Rarotonga, Cook Islands) made during this period (1960's) also survives today on an exterior wall of one of the classrooms at Tereora College at Nikao, Cook Islands, Polynesia.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Acidity and yellowing of overlay paper.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc2006,Drg.453
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 44 (series number)
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Miscellaneous number: OCEANIA 296 (British Museum reference number)